Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We consider Dirichlet series R(s), constructed by taking scalar products of Hecke L-series with ray-class characters. Using a theorem of G. W. Mackey on tensor products of representations of finite groups we show that R(s) has a meromorphic continuation into Re(s) > 1/2 (obtained by more sophisticated methods in [l]-[5]); we then obtain estimates for the growth of R(s) on vertical lines. Via the Mellin transformation we deduce asymptotics for various weighted moment sums involving ideals of given ray-class and norm, in one or several fields simultaneously.